Detachable-leaf check and pass book.



'PATENTED JAN. 21, 1908.

H.F.JOHNSON. DETAGHABLE LEAF CHECK AND PASS BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6, 1907.

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HENRY F. JOHNSON, OF BRISTOW, STATE OF OKLAHOMA.

DETACHABLE-LEAF CHECK AND PASS BOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

Application filed July 6. 1907. Serial No. 382.512.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Bristow, Oklahoma, have invented certain Improvementsin Detachable Leaf Check and Pass Books and I hereby certify and declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates'to a detachable leaf check book in combination withthe ordinary bank pass book, which may be used to combine the check bookand pass book into one book and as onepass book commonly outlastsseveral check books, my invention provides for the insertion of a freshtablet of checks when the supply of the first tablet is exhausted.

The invention is comprised essentially in providing the ordinary passbook with a tablet of checks flexibly attached thereto, the said tabletbeing provided with suitable fasteners, whereby the sheets are removablybound or attached to the cover of the pass book. It also consists in thevarious details of the binder, all of which will be hereinafter setforth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan View of my improved check andpass book, Fig. 2 is the same showing the book open to the check tablet,Fig. 3 is a detail view of the binding device, Fig. 4 is a bottom planview of the same, Fig. 5 is a detail end view of the book in a closedposition.

In the construction of my improved check and pass book, I take theordinary bank pass book, provided with a light flexible cover AB, inwhich the leaves of the book are stitched to a cloth back strip D, andthis back strip pasted to the cover along the line of thecen trallongitudinal fold and by raising that portion of the cloth back stripwhich is attached to the back cover of the book, the

flexible binding strip E, made of brass or other metal, is insertedbeneath the back strip, the extremities of said binding strip F beingbent at right angles to the strip proper and piercing the back strip atpoints equally distant from the top and bottom edges of the cover. Theback strip is then smoothly gummed to its place and the sharpened tips Gof the binding strips E are inserted in horizontally disposed slits H ina tablet of checks L, attached to their stubs K, the size of thecombined check and stub being commensurate with the page of the passbook. When the tablet is thus attached to the binding strip, theflexible ends F of said strip are bent, preferably in a directionopposite to the adjacent end of the book cover, by which means, thecheck tablet is held firmly in its position. Checks may be detached fromsuch a book and the usual entries re corded on the stubs, a new tabletmay be readily inserted on the fasteners when the checks from one tabletare exhausted and this may be accomplished by raising the flexiblepoints F and closing over the new tablet when in place. I

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is A bookcomprising two covers, a flexible connection between the covers, a backstrip, a seam joining the book to the back strip, a pad on one of thecovers, a fastening device securing the pad to the cover and extendingin a line parallel to the seam and at a point near but outside theflexible connection.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses. HENRY F. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

W. W. GRooM, L. D. GRooM.

